4.16.15 Hillsdale Collegian

Michigans oldest college newspaper
Vol. 138 Issue 23 - 16 April 2015
SAB announces two Band Hero

winners to perform at CHP
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Sonic Schizophrenic
Kate Patrick
Assistant Editor
The Student Activities Board
announced not one, but two winners of the Band Hero competition yesterday. The two bands
will open Centralhallapalooza
on April 25 after they agreed to
share a backline for their performances.
Student bands Holy Moses
and Sonic Schizophrenic took
30 percent and 24 percent of the
student vote, respectively. Even
though Holy Moses claimed
more votes, Director of Student
Activities Anthony Manno said
SAB wanted to give both bands
a chance to perform.
I think the margin was 1113 votes, and we felt that was
a small margin, Manno said.
Thats why Sonic Schizophrenic will be opening the show followed by Holy Moses.
Manno said the original
plan involved only one student
band performing at Centralhallapalooza, but SAB wanted to
accommodate both because we
didnt want to compromise one
or the other band.
The initial agreement was
one opening band. We have one
stage and having three backlines
is a lot of stuff, and four is a
mess, Manno said. Set changes take up to a half hour. What
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(Elena Creed/Collegian)
we worked out was we contacted both bands and said if youre

willing to share a backline, well
have both perform. That way the
set change is minimal.
A backline is the sound
equipment used by bands during
a stage performance this inand sometimes drum sets, guitars, keyboards, and synthesizers. Because backlines can vary
greatly between different bands,
for two bands to share a backline
can be a risk.
If you contract, you dont
share a backline, Manno said.
You want to use your own amps
and drum set because it sounds
different. So this is a big deal,
but well work it out.
The members of Holy Moses
said they would coordinate for
a speedy stage transition.
And everyone should ask for
an encore, because our encore
is going to be awesome, lead
singer Ian Andrews 14 said.
Holy
Moses
originally
formed in 2012 when Andrews
watched senior band member
Tim Allen play with the Pickled
Beats.
I saw Tim Allen when I was
a sophomore playing with the
Pickled Beats his freshman year,
and I knew I had seen one of
the best guitar players, Ian Andrews said. So I went up to him
and said Hey man, youre really
good, we should jam.
Holy
Bassist senior Mike Ragan
joined Allen and Andrews to
perform at Centralhallapalooza
2012, and Andrews brother
freshman Aaron Andrews joined
the band this year as the drummer.
For both Aaron and I, its
been a dream come true to be
able to put together a rock band
and play together, Ian Andrews
said. He is one of the most independent people I know, and a
better musician than me by far,
so I think he wont have any
trouble putting a band together
of his own after we leave.
Ragan, whom Ian Andrews
described as the most beautiful
member and the most easygoing, said that while Allen and
Ian Andrews have remarkable talent, performing outside
dream for Holy Moses.
Its hard stylistically to come
up with a venue in Hillsdale,
and Ians all graduated and has
a wife now and a job and a life,
and the rest of us are all hardworking Hillsdale students, Ragan said. If we are going to go
play outside of Hillsdale wed
have to write our own music and
travel, on top of everything else
we have going on. I believe we
could be excellent if we had the
time.
In another life, we could be
a professional rock band, Ian
Andrews said.
(Macaela Bennett/Collegian)
Moses
Lead singer for Sonic Schizophrenic freshman Mark Naida

said Sonic is honored to play
with Holy Moses, which has
won Battle of the Bands two
years in a row.
Whatever the vote count
was, I feel honored to play with
Holy Moses, Naida said.
Sonic Schizophrenic is comprised of six Phi Mu Alpha
fraternity members and came
together at this years Battle of
the Bands, covering what Naida
described as obscure tracks.
But people really liked it,
Naida said. We were like a
Red Hot Chili Peppers band. We
thought Band Hero looked really
cool and rebooted and came up
with some cool songs to play.
We had a lot bigger crowd and
got a lot of our friends to show
up.
Sonic Schizophrenic will have a
solid lineup of songs to perform
next Saturday when the band
opens for Holy Moses.
last night, and we were able
Naida said. We pick things up
pretty fast.
Sonic Schizophrenic will
perform at 7:15 p.m., followed
by Holy Moses at 8 p.m., Chris
Lane at 9 p.m., and Natalie
Stovall at 10:30 p.m. on April 25
at Centralhallapalooza.
Michigan switches to SAT

testing, saves $15 million
Katie Beemer
Collegian Reporter
Michigan high school juniors

will begin taking the SAT instead
of ACT as the state proctored college entrance exam in spring 2016,
a change that surprised and concerned many state educators.
In January, the Michigan Department of Education announced
that College Board, the parent
company of SAT and Advanced
Placement, signed a three-year
contract with the state of Michigan to proctor a redesigned SAT
aligned with Michigan testing
standards to high school students
next spring. The decision resulted
from a bidding process in which
SAT offered to do the job for $15.4
million less than the next lowest
bid. While students will still be
able to pay to take the ACT, only
the SAT will be offered for free to
Freshman Elyse Hutcheson and senior Aaron Pomerantz
performing in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike in all high school students during ofthe Quilhot Blackbox Theatre. See more on B1. (Courtesy
This happened and blindsided
of Caroline Green)
the entire state, saying were go-
ing to move to the SAT, said Bob

Drake, Jonesville High School
guidance counselor.
Some educators say they worry
such short notice, thus scores may
decrease initially since students
are not used to being assessed by
the SAT, Hillsdale County General
Education Director Pat Dillon said.
I do expect scores to go down.
Theres always an implementation
dip, and I think that well do everything we can, but weve seen this
happen with other testing pieces,
Dillon said.
Michigan schools have required students to take the ACT
since 2008, but last year the Michigan Department of Technology
Management and Budget accepted
a bid of $17.1 million that changed
this requirement.
Executive Director of the Michigan Association of Secondary
School Principals Wendy ZdebRoper agreed with Drakes sentiment in an MLive interview, saying the timing of the changeover is
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Speaker: Dr. Robert Blackstock,
Professor of Law
President Arnn
wins Bradley
Prize
Vivian Hughbanks
D.C. Correspondent
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee

announced Tuesday that College President Larry Arnn
will be presented with a 2015
Bradley Prize at a ceremony in
Washington, D.C., on June 3.
Each year, the Bradley
Foundation honors four prominent individuals of extraordinary talent and dedication
who contribute to the tradition
of free representative government and private enterprise.
I have been given the
prize, they say, for doing a
good job at my jobs, chief of
which is serving the college,
Arnn said. I will keep doing
that to the best of my ability. I
about Churchill, and we still
have several document volknown I expect it will help
all that work.
Arnn was chosen because
of his service as president
of Hillsdale College, former
president of The Claremont
Institute Center for Political
Philosophy and Statesmanship, and his work with au-
thorized Winston Churchill

biographer Sir Martin Gilbert.
The prize is accompanied by
an award of a quarter of a million dollars.
Dr. Arnn is dedicated
to traditional academic purpose, Bradley Foundation
President and CEO Michael
Grebe said in a statement.
He has helped to build Hillsdale College into the model of
classical liberal arts education.
His scholarship and leadership
throughout the years deserve
recognition.
Arnn was chosen from
more than 200 nominees from
across the country.
I know the foundation of
old, Arnn said. I have recommended two people connected to the college who have
won the prize in the past.
Arnn has recommended
Churchill biographer Gilbert
and historian and Visiting Professor Victor Davis Hanson
for the award previously.
I know some of the members of the selection committee, including Charles Krauthammer, George Will, Victor
Hanson, and Robbie George,
Arnn said. They are serious
people.
In addition to his leadership and teaching at Hillsdale,
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Charger pitchers hold the Oilers
to just two runs in last nights
doubleheader. A8
Vanya and Sonia and Masha

and Spike
Tower Players production runs
through this weekend in Quilhot
Blackbox Theatre. B1
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Interviews with CHP Bands
Holy Moses and Sonic Schizophrenic B4
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Center receives five-star rating
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A2 16 April 2015
Presidents Office commemorates

150th anniversary of Lincolns death
Tom Novelly
Collegian Reporter
Students and faculty gathered around the Civil War

Memorial on the anniversary of Lincolns death. (Hailey
a public commemoration yesterday afternoon in honor of the

150th anniversary of Lincolns
death.
Dean of the Van Andel
Graduate School of Statesmanship and Professor of Politics
Ronald Pestritto addressed the
crowd while standing next to
the bronze Lincoln statue. His
speech focused on the fallen
presidents principled legacy
for conservatives and America.
Graduate student Zachary
Reynolds introduced Pestritto
to the crowd, which consisted
of students and politics professors. Special guests from
Morgan/Collegian)
Hillsdales graduating class of

1965, celebrating their reunion
as well as Lincolns life, were
also present. Pestritto took the
podium to remember a legacy
that is often debated but always
remembered.
I hope that todays commemoration will be an opportunity for us if we worry that
America has lost its way to
do what Lincoln always urged:
to return to the principles of the
Revolution, Pestritto said. To
do what we can to emulate the
example of his statesmanship
by bringing this principle to
bear in the great questions of
our time.
Lincolns principles are
highly debated on Hillsdales
campus, and many students
have formulated their own arguments and defenses for the
YAF members attend midwest conference

Vivian Hughbanks
D.C. Correspondent
More than 200 students from

across America including
14 from Hillsdale gathered
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin last
weekend for the Young Americas Foundations Midwest
Freedom Conference.
While traveling the six hours
to the conference with students
from the University of Michigan on a bus provided by YAF,
the students heard from speakers like Congressman Sean
Duffy (R-Wi.), Stephen Hayes
of The Weekly Standard, and
Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online.
The conference focused on
targeting the right demographic, junior YAF President Savanna Wierenga said. Not just
giving the overview conservative umbrella speech, but saying
that we need people to go into
certain areas and really reach
them and hit them at a level of
SAT
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both educators and students.

The thing thats really, really
are trying to adapt to Common
Core curriculum and the M-STEP
(Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress) and online testing, Zdeb-Roper said. And the
one thing thats been consistent
is the ACT. Now were going to
switch to a test that were completely unfamiliar with.
In addition to switching from
SAT to ACT, juniors next spring
will be taking a new version of
the SAT made to match Michigan
testing standards.
The redesigned SAT is focused on the few durable things
that evidence shows matter most
for college and career success,
dents are already learning in
their classrooms, College Board
Chief of Assessment Cyndie Schmeiser said.
Before making the switch, a
committee of state superintendents, principals, educators, and
administrators ranked the two assessment tests and found the SAT
to be both less expensive and better at evaluating students, according to DTMB spokesperson Bill
DiSessa.
Committee members go
through and look at all the technical aspects of each test, like
how the tests perform on the requirements weve laid out, which
results in a score which must be
higher than 80 in order to even
move on to the second round,
cial pricing of the test, said Caleb
Buhs, DTMB Communications
Director. The review team has
test when grading it to make sure
its not completely based on prices, but we always try to choose
the best value for the state.
After the committee announced it would opt for the SAT,
ACTs Assistant Vice President
Catherine Dunn appealed its decision, which the Board of Education denied.
Upon a careful and independent review of the relevant materials and the ACT protest letter, I
have determined that the recommendation is appropriate, states
the letter in reply to the protest.
The ACT protest is respectfully
denied.
Buhs said DTMB had extended ACTs contract in previous
years instead of accepting new
conservatism that they can understand.

Speakers touched on their
picks for 2016 just days before both former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton and Sen.
Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) launched
their campaigns for the White
House. Goldberg mentioned
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin
as a high possibility, with Rubio
as a running mate.
I also loved hearing about
the election, Bell said. I dont
really get into sports or anything, but I love politics. I really
had a lot of fun hearing different
peoples points of view.
A big hit at the conference
especially among Hillsdale
attendees was Greg Gutfeld
of FOX News The Five.
I loved Greg, junior John
Bell said. I thought he was hilarious and he was fearless, and
he was really racy.
According to Wierenga, Hillsdales YAF chapter is exploring
the possibility of bringing Gutfeld to campus next semester.
We need to divorce ourselves from the idea that words
hurt. Because they dont, Gutfeld said in his speech, in which

he gave entertaining and edgy
bids, so most state educators assumed this pattern would continue. Despite the money saved by
the state, Drake said he believes
those costs will simply be incurred by the school districts and
schools in the changeover.
They claim cost savings of
about $15 million; however, that
cost savings gets eaten up right
away in the amount of time the
secondary schools will be basically preparing to switch over to
this test, Drake said. I think it
was a money-savings decision.
But it was money saving for the
state of Michigan. Unfortunately,
thats not money savings for your
local school districts or your colleges and universities. Its shortsighted to believe that the states
savings of $15 million is $15 million because it isnt all of the
high schools have to then prepare
for a total change of what their
testing is.
Another potential problem
arising from the SAT switch is
that many local scholarships are
based on ACT scores and dont
include SAT equivalents.
Our teachers just arent familiar with it. Ive been a counselor
for 20 years or so and in that time
weve only had a handful of SAT
takers, Reading High School
Guidance Counselor Mitch Hubbard said.
Drake said he hoped educators concerns would dissuade the
state from solidifying the change.
The hope was that there
would be enough people outraged about this that it wouldnt
actually happen, but at this point
were heading to the SAT, Drake
said. I dont foresee it changing
at this point.
To placate these concerns, the
College Board and Khan Academy an online school that
publishes free video lessons for
every subject are offering free
practice tests to prepare Michigan
students for the new test structure.
Michigan students and their
In response, Michigan school

administrators are reevaluating
programs to prepare students for
the SAT.
It will be a matter of creating
awareness encouraging students and teachers and families to
practice, to take a look at the new
test, Dillon said.
College Board plans to help
schools make the change, too.
The College Board is committed to supporting the MDE to
ensure a seamless transition that
will allow students, parents, and
educators across the state to take
advantage of the opportunities
our redesigned assessment has to
offer, Schmeiser said.
Although many are worried
about what the upcoming year
will bring, Hillsdale High School
teacher Nick Tucker, who has
taught ACT preparation courses
for the school for three years,
does not anticipate the school
having to make many changes in
its standardized testing preparations.
I do not mind what test is
used so long as the test is valid
and reliable, Tucker said. Both
the ACT and the SAT are reliable
tests and I hope that the state does
not make it a habit of changing
tests every couple of years.
Although students will be
sending colleges their scores
from the SAT instead of the ACT,
all Michigan universities accept
the SAT and it is a globally-recognized test, according to Marty
Ackley, director of governmental
and public affairs for the Michigan Department of Education. Although Ackley conceded the SAT
is used more often on the East and
West coasts than the Midwest, its
unlikely students will have dif-
scholarship opportunities connected to College Board assessments, as well as the college application fee waivers we provide,
Schmeiser said. While the SAT,
which is accepted at all Michigan
universities, is a familiar exam to
many in the state, we will make
resources and support services
focused on the key features of
the redesigned assessment available to districts. This information
will help districts understand how
they can interpret and use the results to propel more students to
college and career readiness.
arguments.
Greg really touched on how
to approach the liberal left, and

using media and using liberal
arguments against themselves
and not just being a stone-cold
boring conservative, Bell said.
His jokes were hilarious.
16th president. Pestritto addressed the crowd, saying that

this was one of the reasons why
we remember such a controThe contested status of
Lincolns legacy is at the heart
of debates among conservatives about the American political tradition, Pestritto said.
Conservatives agree that there
is something worth conserving
in that tradition that we have
lost it, and must get it back; but
we disagree, often fundamentally, about what that thing is.
Pestritto continued to discuss the issue of many liberals claiming Lincoln as their
own for his progressive ideals,
while many conservatives argue against him.
We have the claim that Lin-
Student Fed helps

to fund CHP
Katie Beemer
Collegian Reporter
Student Federation approved

a total of $7,000 for Centralhallapalooza last week to be added
to their general budget.
Out of that money, $4,550
was recently approved and
$2,450 was approved earlier
this year, but due to an administrative mistake was not transferred into the Student Activities Board account. The money
will be transferred now, coming
to a total of $7,000.
Last year, due to Aaron Carters performance, Student Federation approved $10,500 for
the event. The amount asked for
Junior John Bell and freshman Jack Sinko with
Columnist Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard at
the Young Americas Foundations Midwest Freedom
Conference in Milwaukee. (Courtesy of Jack Sinko)
their new test scores.

We accept both the SAT and
the ACT without preference, so it
wont affect anything with that,
Senior Director of Field Recruitment Zachary Miller said. The
only difference it will make is we
are in Michigan and a good chunk
of our applications come from
Michigan. So, were used to talking in ACT lingo. The difference
will be that now well talk more
in the language of the SAT.
Additional information about
the new testing process, includis available at deliveringopportunity.org.
Pestritto explained. Even

though, in fact, he was probably the greatest advocate in
American history for the very
principles which progressives
urge us to turn our back on.
The speech was concluded
with a performance of The
Battle Hymn of The Republic,
sung by members of the Hillsdale College Chamber Choir
and conducted by Professor of
Music James Holleman.
Lincoln said in his Lyceum address that the ideals
of freedom must be protected,
and that we need to whisper
the principles of the Constitution to our children, Reynolds
said. Today we commemorate
the man who understood what
made this nation great.
There was little debate about
the proposal and it passed

quickly.
We were happy to provide
the funds for Centralhallapalooza, Student Fed treasurer sophomore Jacob Thackston
said. We know that SAB puts
on a good show that gets a lot of
people out there, and they put
together a really good proposal
this year that cut a lot of money
out of last years proposal and
dent population.
The $7,000 approved for
SAB makes up a small portion
of their $30,000 budget for the
event.
Centralhallapalooza
will
be held April 25 and will feature performances by Natalie
Stovall and the Drive, Holy
Moses, Sonic Schizophrenic,
and Chris Lane.
Former Mises student talks

market process
Jordan Finney
Collegian Reporter
Economist Israel Kirzner lectured to about 100 Hillsdale College students yesterday on the
history of Austrian economics
and how it relates to the theory of
market process.
Kirzner, a former student of
Ludwig von Mises, focused on
the deepening of the Austrian
schools understanding of subjectivism, especially between 1937
and 1948.
In that decade, Hayes and
Mises were considered to be defeated, Kirzner said. It was said
that Austrian economics had a distinct history, but no future. It was
precisely in that decade, when
Austrian economics was being
read its last rites, that Mises and
Hayek were deepening their understanding of subjectivism and
redirecting Austrian economics.
Kirzner described how Hayeks
focus on the role of knowledge
and knowledge discovery and
Mises focus on human action and
entrepreneurial discovery helped
inform the theory that the market
is a process, not an equilibrium.
trepreneurship, and freedom of
entry.
An entrepreneur is someone
who has to make a decision in
the teeth of an uncertain future,
Kirzner said. He has to guess.
True human decision making is
Israel Kirzner
entrepreneurial. The market is
subject to the will of the consumer. Its only the freedom to make
mistakes that can stimulate the
discovery procedure that leads to
the correction of mistakes made.
When an entrepreneur makes a
ery.
Kirzner supervised the economics dissertation of Hillsdale
College Associate Professor of
Economics Charles Steele at New
York University.
Many of us believe that of
the scholars who studied under
Ludwig von Mises, Dr. Kirzner is
the most important, Steele said.
The most important single event
in my development as an econo-
(Jordan Finney/Collegian)
mist was the opportunity to study

under Dr. Kirzner.
PRAXIS hosted the hourlong
event, which included a Q&A
session and an afterglow chat with
Kirzner.
I could have listened to him
all day, junior Emily Albert, an
economics major, said. Hes
very knowledgeable. He covered
a very broad topic succinctly. I
loved how he presented the idea
of perfect knowledge and equilibrium compared to the market process. As an economics major, listening to him really inspires me.
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Arnn is completing the work of publishing a book about the life, leadership, and character of
Winston Churchill. The book, titled Churchills Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation
of Free Government, will be released next January. Hes now considering what to make his
next project.
ing one, I would rather be skinned than do that, but likely I will change my mood about that.
I like to write about the things that I teach, and I have done that for two of them now.
Kimberley Strassel of The Wall Street Journal, who spoke at Hillsdale in 2013, was honored by the Bradley Foundation last year.
Through the Bradley Prizes, we recognize individuals like Dr. Arnn, whose accomplishments strengthen American institutions, with the hope that others will strive for excellence in
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Former NFL player, now speaker,

to share Christian testimony
John Gage
Collegian Freelancer
Former professional football player C.L. Shepherd will

come to Markel Auditorium on
Wednesday to share an inspirational message with students.
The event, which is being
hosted by the Sigma Chi pledge
class in conjunction with JAG
Industrial and Marine Services,
features the testimony of Shepherd, who is recognized nationally for his motivational speaking and Christian testimony.
According to sophomore Tom
Novelly, the philanthropy event
is customary for each incoming
pledge class.
Its a tradition that each
pledge class throws a philanthropy event each year, and this
is by far the most dynamic one
weve had all year, Novelly
said. Sigma Chi has matured
from having pies thrown in their
faces for charity to hosting a
NFL football player to talk about
the gospel and motivating young
adult lives.
Shepherd, who prefers to be
called Shep, played football as a
student at Florida Atlantic University. After graduating, Shep
played in the NFL for both the
Detroit Lions and the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers. Shep eventually turned down a multimillion

dollar contract to join the Fellowship of Christian Athletes as
a chaplain.
Sigma Chi President junior
Gregg Coughlin said he is excited to see Shep come to campus
because of his background.
I am fascinated by crazy and
radical oddities in the world,
and Shep is seemingly all of the
above, he said. To work your
way out of the projects, make it
in the NFL, and then give up a
chance for worldly success while
still in the upswing of your career seems radical to me.
in Hillsdale. He gave a speech a
couple years back in which he encouraged athletes to look beyond
sports. This time, the speech will
be open to all of campus. Freshman Sigma Chi pledge Nathan
Putrich noted the event is expected to attract members from
the broader Hillsdale community, including many churches in
the area where the event has also
been advertised.
How often do you get to see
a former NFL player and Super
Bowl winner share about his
spiritual journey and inspirational ideas? Putrich said. We all
ish strong near the end of the semester, and his message should
that.
A3 16 April 2015
Charger Dash
replaces triathlon
new annual spring event.
Kelsey Drapkin
Senior Reporter
Campus Health and Recreation, with marketing support

from the Student Activities
Board, will be presenting the
(C.L. Shepherd/Courtesy of Shepherd)
Coughlin said he believes

Shep will connect well with attendees.
Athletes will have a unique
connection with Shep because he
is someone who made it to the
highest level of competition,
he said. Intellectuals will have
a unique connection with Shep
because he has a degree, and also
because he made it to the high-
important in life than his job.

Coughlin said he is excited to
see Shepherd speak to the students.
Sheps message and example
should be seen as an inspiration
to devote your life wholly to
what is good, true, and beautiful, he said. Also, when was
the last time you saw an NFL
player not named Veldheer or
Holmes on Hillsdales campus?
realized there is something more
a.m. Saturday at Hayden Park.

The dash will be a hybrid
of a tough mudder, a warrior
dash, and a 5K, according to
Director of Student Activities
Anthony Manno.
We want to push students
to have not just an easy 5K jog,
but we want to have them challenge themselves physically
and mentally, Mens Director
of Residence Life and Campus
Health and Recreation junior
Jeff Myers said.
In previous years, the spring
event was a triathlon, but SAB
and Campus Health and Recreation found they were getting
low participation due to disinterest in the swimming portion of the event. They hope to
install the Charger Dash as the
throughout the course, which

will be approximately the
length of a 5K. While the planning committee wants to keep
most of the obstacles a surprise, they did reveal that participants will have to scale an
eight-foot wall.
Its not an easy walk in the
park, Myers said.
There will be enough space
under the wall for participants
to crawl under, Manno assured.
On the same token, anyone
can do it, Manno said. Every
obstacle you can scale to suit
your needs.
Womens Director of Residence Life and Campus Health
and Recreation junior Rachael
Hille said she was impressed
with the rapid sign-ups for the
event considering the intentional ambiguity in advertising.
up will receive a free shirt, and
participants can sign up by
emailing Hille or visiting the
table at lunch today or tomorrow.
Patrick Deneen to speak on Leo Strauss and liberalism

Amanda Tindall
News Editor
Bringing a different perspective to campus, Patrick Deneen
will be speaking about Leo
Strauss at 8 p.m. on April 23.
Deneen is the David A. Potenziani Memorial Associate Professor of Constitutional Studies
at Notre Dame University. He
is a regular author for both First
Things magazine and the American Conservative.
Patrick Deneen cherishes
the classical conception of political community or the polis,
Assistant Professor of History
and Symposium faculty adviser
Matthew Gaetano said. He believes that Aristotles perspective on politics provides what is
Like many at Hillsdale, he sees
our current social and economic
structures as inimical to that kind
of community and therefore to
happiness itself. Deneen challenges us at Hillsdale by asking
about whether deeply-held American beliefs like contract theory
or natural rights may be a part of
explaining why we are facing the
problems of our own time.
The invitation to come speak
at Hillsdale was extended after
some students attended an Edith
Stein conference at Notre Dame
and met Deneen there. Senior Katie Summa, Symposium treasurer,
was one of those students.

Basically, I read his article in
First Things a few years ago, and
I was at the Edith Stein conference in February, Summa said.
He gave this beautiful talk about
libraries as temples of knowledge, and it was very beautiful.
And hes involved in ISI, and so
I went up and talked with him
afterwards, and emailed him and
invited him to come, and he was
very willing.
Junior Mattie VanderBleek, a
double major in politics and history, also met Deneen at Notre
Dame after reading much of his
work.
I like that hes engaging in a
debate that a lot of people dont
want to have, VanderBleek said.
I think hes doing it seriously.

He entertains the question that
we might be entering into a postliberal society. He entertains the
possibility that liberalism has run
its course. If that is the case, we
need to be prepared to revisit the
theoretical grounding of liberal
political theory.
In his article titled Unsustainable Liberalism he said, Thus
the liberal experiment contradicts
itself, and a liberal society will
inevitably become postliberal.
The postliberal condition can
retain many aspects that are regarded as liberalisms triumphs
equal dignity of persons, in particularwhile envisioning an
alternative understanding of the
human person, human commu-
On Friday at 8 p.m., Hillsdale

students and professors can share
beloved poems in a relaxed version
of the nationwide event Poetry Out
Loud, hosted in honor of April as
National Poetry Month.
Poetry Out Loud is a national
recitation competition in which
students choose a poem from the
programs anthology of poems to
recite for cash prizes. But Hillsdale
Colleges social media coordinator,
Hannah Strickland, along with Assistant Professor of English Kelly
Franklin, decided to take the idea
in a different direction.
They said they see Fridays poetry reading as a warm-up, a way
to get Hillsdale students participating in the national conversation on
poetry.
Hillsdale College is a good
school for creative writing and
English, Strickland said. Im
trying to raise awareness of that
among students and in our social
media presence.
Poetry readings are not a new
concept for the college. Hillsdale
has a history of hosting informal
poetry nights at various off-campus
houses.
Strickland reminisced about her
experience of Hillsdales poetry
culture as a student.
I was a Donnybrooker,
Strickland said. The evening consisted of poetry readings by everyone there (as long as youre brave
enough to read aloud). Tea and
coffee was offered to everyone,
and on rare occasions theres even
something like raisin cake, baked
by one of the guys of the house.
The features of Poetry Out
Loud are similar to those of Stricklands undergraduate experience.
Attendees can enjoy tea, coffee,
and baked goods while they read
and listen to poetry.
At Hillsdale, theres such a
reverence for old, well-written poetry that doesnt exist anywhere
else, Strickland said. We are
unique, but lets pour that into the
mainstream.
Hillsdales version of Poetry
Out Loud will combine the high
regard of Yeats, T.S. Eliot, and
Hopkins in the close-knit Hillsdale
community with the national participation Poetry Out Loud represents.
Both Strickland and Franklin
esteem the companionship and
community that poetry readings
evoke.
The culture and companionship found in these intimate gatherings is something not found other
places. These are some of the evenings I have treasured most in my
four years here the companionship is incomparable, Strickland
said.
Well, a lot of poetry perhaps
all poetry is meant to be heard,
necessary questions about politics, modern liberalism, and constitutionalism, Deneen has also
written a critique of the great
books tradition in his article
Against Great Books, in First

Things magazine.
Chris McCaffery said this perspective is one of the things that
make his presence on campus
valuable.
of the Symposium, think, from
reading his published writings
and interacting with him, that he
has an interesting perspective on
Americas political order and politics in general, McCaffery said.
We are excited to have him on
campus.
Students study independently
Hillsdale celebrates
national poetry month
JoAnna Kroeker
nity, politics, and the relationship

of the cities of Man to the city of
God.
Deneen has already been in
discourse with Hillsdale, as Associate Professor of Philosophy
Nathan Schlueter has written responses to some of Deneens articles.
Hell be speaking on Leo
Strauss, Symposium president
senior Devin Creed said. He
tive than everyone in our politics
department.
Morgan Sweeney
Senior Reporter
Franklin said. And I think that

reading can be really fruitful when
done in community. Thats what
were doing in literature classes.
The same thing is true about writing,
Because of this, the Poetry
Out Loud event is on-campus and
meant for everyone to enjoy, regardless of previous knowledge of
poetry.
Poetry can point people to
things they never thought were
beautiful before thats something everyone can appreciate,
Franklin said.
Strickland and Franklin said
they hope to create a welcome
environment that fosters campuswide appreciation of poetry one
that will encourage the return of
this event in years to come, with
more students sharing favorites and
composing their own.
To further promote the enjoyment of poetry read aloud, videos
of Associate Professor of English
Justin Jackson, Professor of English John Somerville, and Assistant
Professor of English Dwight Lindley reading their favorite poems are
also being released on Facebook.
The Poetry Out Loud event
is an open invitation to celebrate
both the old and the new, highlight
a unique aspect of Hillsdales culture, and participate in the national
appreciation of poetry.
Oxford University famously

uses the tutorial system to teach
its students each student has
jects with professors individually.
This same system often occurs on Hillsdales campus as
well. Some students take them as
a way to make up for three-credit
classes they were unable to take
at an earlier time. Others request
one-credit independent studies on
subjects that fascinate them.
Doug Johnson, assistant professor of management for the
business department, said Hillsdale has more independent studies
than any other institution at which
he has taught. Though Johnson
has only been here at Hillsdale for
two years, he has already taught
four independent studies.
Usually at the beginning of a
term, I ask my students what their
particular interests are and what
they want to do after Hillsdale.
Then I customize a course or two
Johnson himself did an independent study as an undergraduhis education afterward. An economics major, he took an independent study on the economics
of research and development.
Initially, I thought I was going to get a Ph.D. in economics.
That was what I was going to do
economics of R&D, but then
I became more interested in business strategy, Johnson said. But
I would say it impacted my future
direction.
Independent studies can provide an opportunity for students

to study a subject they are passionate about under the guidance
of a professor. But they can also
be enriching for professors. Assistant Professor of History Matthew Gaetano said he loves teaching them.
What independent studies allow me to do as a historian that
Im not able to do in my classes is
really to focus on one text or one
theme, Gaetano said. In Heritage, Im covering centuries in a
semester, and I really enjoy that.
I think thats important to give
the lay of the land. But its also
important for students to realize
how much more there is to learn
studying.
Gaetano, too, who is in his
fourth year of teaching at Hillsdale, has held several independent seminars. To name a few,
he has taught on Luthers Commentary on Galatians and on
Calvins Institutes of the Christian Religion as well as the texts
of Thomas Aquinas teacher Albert the Great. He usually teaches
one or two texts per study, reading
them with students in the original
language and working through
them by the Aristotelian model,
from logic to natural philosophy,
to metaphysics.
Currently, Gaetano is leading
an independent study with senior
Josh Benjamins, junior Toms
Valle, and junior Jack Shannon.
Together, they have been working
through a whole range of material
in the original Latin. Gaetano has
enjoyed seeing them apply what
theyve learned in class to other
subjects.
Its been really inspiring to

see. There have been some moments in their papers for other
classes that really bring to bear
what weve studied together on
other subjects, Gaetano said.
They are able to pose questions
that come out of this slow, disciplined march through an Aristotelian, old, textbook approach to
philosophy.
Johnson remembers an independent study with a student at
Purdue University, who put together a business plan for a company that ended up in the pages of
Fortune Magazine.
Associate Professor of Classical Studies Eric Hutchinson has
also led several independent studies over the years, including one
on Augustines On Catechizing
the Uninstructed; an early Christian work called the Epistle to
Diognetus; and, this semester, a
selection of Ovids Heroides,
which are love letters from (mostly) mythical heroines to their absent love-interests.
Hutchinson said he doesnt
believe independent studies to be
superior to regular classes, except
in that the students who take them
are usually very eager and excited
about the subject being taught,
which leads to real learning.
Johnson encourages students
to talk to their professors if they
have a subject theyre particularly
interested in.
I think if somebody has
something that they want to study
independently, they should certainly seek out that opportunity.
Professors here are pretty open
to doing those types of things,
Johnson said.
Students pursue business opportunities on campus

Laura Williamson
Collegian Reporter
A new Career Services program and a student-led club are

providing new opportunities for
students to expand their practical business knowledge and learn
real-world skills.
The Hillsdale College Business Fundamentals Program
will allow students to participate based on nomination from
their professors. One facet of the

program is a two-week course
offered in Boston this summer
called the Fullbridge Program.
Fullbridge focuses on teaching its
participants real-world business
skills.
Fullbridge is like a bootcamp-like business for building
business fundamentals, Executive Director of Career Services
Michael Murray said.
The other facet of the Business
Fundamentals Program is an ondents will hear from alumni, go
on trips to companies, and visit

top business schools.
Another opportunity is a club
that senior Alex Mexicotte spearheaded. This semester the currently un-named club hosted its
tures, seminars, and other events.
The group will bring in speakers
and have events where students
can learn hands-on skills for careers after Hillsdale.
What we want to try and
do with this group is to bring in
and expose students to practical
knowledge in the business world
that you arent necessarily going

to be getting in the classroom
environment, Mexicotte said.
So you have a lot of academics
and that kind of learning in the
classroom where youre not going to learn so much about going
out with co-workers after work
or how to address your boss in
certain situations. These are the
types of things we think are important for people in almost any
career, any career path.
Mexicotte stressed the fact
that the events are not just for
business majors and are open to
everyone.
Were not just trying to target business people, people in the
business environment, Mexicotte said. This is targeted to
people in any industry, any job.
We want to make this clear that
this is not just something for business people. Youre going to be
working with people in any industry, any job. This is going to
be relevant to you no matter what
career path you go into.
said she was interested in joining the group after attending their
I really like the idea of it,

much, especially with a liberal
arts college, that just is pursuing things for their own sake
which is good but theres also
OK, now I have to go out into
the real world and get a job, and
this deals with things like that
and prepares you for the business
world.
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Dont be cynical about the college

the opinion of the collegian eDitorial staff
Many students come to Hillsdale College enamored of its

institutional character, of its
and of its steadfast refusal to
accept government aid of any
kind. Yet by senior year, some
have adopted an ironic posture toward the college. They
look with contempt on the visitors wandering about campus,
ogling at the statues, sitting in
eagerly on classes, asking earnest questions at CCAs. They
scoff at frequent invocations of
liberty, the Founding, and the
Philip Hammersley
Special to the Collegian
Inscribed in marble on the face of the United States Supreme Court are the words: Equal Justice Under Law.
Although the legal meaning of this promise evolves over
time, the idea of equal protection has long been a cornerstone of American constitutional jurisprudence. The
14th Amendments Equal Protection Clause has ushered
in important advances by providing legal recognition for
interracial marriage and womens rights.
Today, proponents of same-sex marriage seek judicial
relief under the 14th Amendment after several states have
passed constitutional amendments restricting marriage to
a man and a woman. Despite the disparate rulings over
the past several years, the legal community may reach a
turning point this year. On April 28, the Supreme Court
will hear oral argument in Obergefell v. Hodges to determine whether Americas guarantee of Equal Justice Under Law requires states to recognize same-sex marriage.
The Court agreed to hear this case after several difdeclared state bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. The Sixth Circuits ruling to uphold the bans created
a split in the courts, giving the Supreme Court a reason
to weigh in. The Sixth Circuit adopted a very deferential
stance in reaching its decision. Essentially, they held that
the courts are not responsible for second-guessing the decisions made by the people and legislatures of the states.
Same-sex couples argue that they

are being denied equal access to
entering into the institution of marriage, which is something that they
cannot be deprived of no matter how
many people vote to strip them of
that ability.
Judicial review under the Equal Protection Clause can
be divided into three separate categories: Strict scrutiny,
intermediate scrutiny, and rational basis review. Strict
scrutiny is the most stringent level of review reserved
for statutes impacting those groups the Court deems protected classes. Statutes burdening these groups have a
high burden they must meet in order to survive judicial
review. Rational basis review, on the other hand, is the
least stringent standard. Statutes undergoing this level of
review merely need to show that there are some reasonThe Sixth Circuits reasoning differed from the other
circuit courts in the level of judicial scrutiny it applied to
the state constitutional amendments. While other circuits
accorded same-sex couples heightened judicial scrutiny,
the Sixth Circuit used the most deferential rational basis
amendments.
The Sixth Circuits decision has been appealed, and
the Supreme Court will review its decision in Obergefell.
The states argue that the Court should permit the states to
exercise the right to self-government, which includes the
they are being denied equal access to entering into the institution of marriage, which is something that they cannot
be deprived of no matter how many people vote to strip
them of that ability.
Ultimately, the decision in Obergefell will turn upon
the level of judicial scrutiny the Court decides to apply
to the state constitutional amendments. Will the Court be
deferential to the will of the people as expressed through
the state constitutional amendments, or will it err on the
side of protecting the rights and well-being of same-sex
couples? Given the current ideological composition of the
Court, the decision will likely come down to Justice Kennedy. I predict, consistent with his majority opinion in
United States v. Windsor, he will strike down the bans and
provide judicial protection for same-sex marriages under
the Equal Protection Clause.
Philip Hammersley is a senior George Washington
Fellow studying politics.
viewpoints that revolve around

a common set of ideals and
sources. To expect a universal
consensus on what our college

means and ought to be is to expect what cannot be produced.
Yet those cynical about the
college would do well to remember that some of the aspects of the college most easily scoffed at are the very same
elements that allow the college
to exist as it does. It truly is
expensive, not only to educate
a student here, but to resist the
ever-looming teat of government aid, especially when societal pressure bears down in
favor of yielding.
So seniors, as well as others

who look with a jaundiced eye
at some of the colleges practices, remember that these practices are integral to the colleges
existence. It may not be a perfect system what is? but
its far superior to the alternative. Continue to discuss freely,
but try to avoid cynicism. Its
the easiest sentiment to express
against something with actual
ideals. Were better than that.
An ode to the breakfast burrito

This meal from the Palace Caf could change your life forever
disparage the satisfaction that
comes from the Palaces many
other offerings. Our country
would certainly be less without
the hearty vigor that comes from
simple bacon and eggs, and we
relish the lazy afternoons that
follow some good biscuits and
gravy. And we should not for-
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WHY GAY
MARRIAGE
WILL WIN
tyrannies of the outside world

that supposedly threaten the
college daily. Content in their
own studies and in their own
subcultures, they remain cynically aloof from both the colleges external marketing and
from their more politically earnest peers.
To some extent, this is unavoidable. Indeed, it is preferable. Our campus culture
Andy Reuss
Student Columnist
The Palace Caf is a hidden
gem of the Hillsdale community.
Quietly tucked in the downtown
cornucopia of shops and restaurants, the Palace is known best
for its delicious breakfast foods
and college-friendly weekend
hours. Yet few are aware of its
crowning glory, the as-of-yet unsung hero that should be recognized throughout the entirety of
Michigan and, perhaps one day,
the world. Of course, as those
several acolytes of the morning
meal reading this may know,
I am speaking of the breakfast
burrito.
Before I sing praises to the
breakfast burrito, please understand that I do not want to
with sandwiches and the like for

those less inclined to indulge the
universal love of breakfast fare.
Yet one item stands alone,
remarkable for its utility, presentation, and indescribable goodness: It is the breakfast burrito.
And it is my belief that the only
way to honor this prince of the
early-morning palate properly is
to give it a name that people will
come to recognize near and far.
First, the breakfast burrito is
the ideal choice for its nutritious
utility. It is composed of the four
major breakfast food groups:
Meat, potatoes, bread, and vegetables (for taste; never for its
own sake). The delightful medley of green pepper and onion is
mixed with a seasoned layer of
steaming hash browns. Sausage
is artfully interspersed, and a
comforting layer of scrambled
eggs envelops it all. Finally, a
rich tortilla protects this extravagant combination of starch, veggies, and protein, with a tantalizing drizzle of salsa and shredded
cheese on top. Those lucky
enough to enjoy this bounty of
the gods have the optional choices of sour cream and hot sauce to
are obvious.
Second, the provocative presentation of the breakfast burrito gives its beholder pause.
Read the above description, and
imagine this ever-exceeding gift.
What must I do? How should I
begin? Do I dare disturb the universe? These are but a few of the
questions rushing through the
mind of those in the burritos
presence. The shape of the burrito might inspire one to grasp it
in ones hands, yet the delicate
nature of that perfect parcel begs
a more careful treatment. Each
end of the tortilla remains untucked, as if to demonstrate the
limitlessness of the human spirit.
We are confronted with a decision, one regarding which end
with which to begin. The lesser
among us might relegate this
choice to chance. The truly great
could never ignore such a consequential moment.
Third, and most important,
we must consider the indescribable goodness of the breakfast
burrito. From beginning to end,
the experience of this divine
prize never fails to please. One
trembles in nervous excitement
in the moments prior to ordering, and grins with childlike glee
at the prospect of its immediate
arrival. The skeptical among us
need only see the eyes of the
devotee about to devour to apsatisfaction. And there are few

moments of sheer bliss to rival
the ecstasy felt in the last bite of
those heavenly victuals.
In many ways, the breakfast burrito may be the perfect
food. Versatile and universally
appealing, it could appear at
something as humble as a common breakfast date to an evening business meeting. People
of all walks of life can recognize
its appeal, both nutritionally and
aesthetically. And its potential
for repetitious production and
consumption is unlike most any
other dish. Many culinary experts (probably) acknowledge
this comprehensive virtue, and
we should too.
name? I believe the Palace Caf
should name this maestro of the
menu in order to give focus to
its fame. By providing an iconic
title to this iconic dish, we adoring admirers will have a clear,
helpful means by which to share
its renown.
As for those of you who may
be reading this with a doubt left
in your mind, I ask only that
you indulge, if for just one bite.
It will change your life forever,
and most certainly for the better.
Andy Reuss is a senior
studying politics and English.
Our police are out of control

Noah Weinrich
On April 4, a man named Walter Scott
South Carolina. Scott was a 50-year-old African-American man who had been stopped
for allegedly having a broken tail light, and
who recorded the entire event, Scott was
unarmed, and was handcuffed while lying
unresponsive on the ground, contrary to the
and that he felt threatened.
This tragic incident is indicative of a
larger trend in American law enforcement:
One of continual abuse, excessive force,
and unchecked use of power that have left
thousands of people dead, and far more terrorized, injured, or incarcerated. Our criminal justice system has failed to hold the
police to the proper standard, and our law
enforcement system has grown far beyond
its proper role as a result.
The modern state of the police has
cades, especially after 9/11. It is a system
domestic counter-terrorism efforts. These
two issues have coalesced into the ubiquitous Special Weapons and Tactics teams
of the 21st century, which carry out over
80,000 raids per year, in comparison with
3,000 per year in 1980. These are drug raids
62 percent of the time, and come up with
The Uses of a
Liberal Arts
Education
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McClatchey
absolutely no evidence over 36 percent of

the time, according to an American Civil
Liberties Union report. These raids are
highly dangerous, often leaving innocent
victims dead or injured, and are not even
the proper domain of the SWAT force.
Our criminal justice system has failed to hold the

police to the proper standard, and our law enforcement system has grown
far beyond its proper role
as a result.
This is an appalling symptom of a shift
in mentality in American policing. Instead
of the community-oriented system which
we had for nearly two centuries, which
worked on the local level to prevent crime
and keep communities safe, we now have
an us-versus-them mentality between law
enforcement and the communities they are
supposed to protect. Military-style raids are
now the norm, and the emphasis is not on
community safety, but on strictly punishing
at any cost those who engage in illicit activities.
To accomplish these goals, municipal
police receive military surplus technology through the Pentagon, which means
that small-town law enforcement and even
campus police have access to military guns

and body armor, 18-ton armored vehicles,
and even rocket launchers. This attitude of
being warriors against crime and drugs has
transformed the mindset of our police from
viewing their districts as a community to be
guarded to considering them as a group to
suppress and punish.
As a result of this continuing overreach,
the police rate of misconduct has reached
untenable levels, manifesting itself in cases
like Walter Scotts homicide. According to
the law were credibly accused of misconduct in a 21-month period beginning in
April 2009. Less than 4 percent of these
receiving jail time, which is a minuscule
in comparison with the massive 70 percent
conviction rate of civilians for general ofclear picture emerges of a systemic tendency of widespread police misconduct going
almost totally unpunished.
To begin to close the rift between our
ority must be for our criminal justice sysstandard of conduct to which we ought to
expect any public servant. It is only after
we begin to hold our guardians accountable
to the law and after they scale back their
overreaching, military-style tactics that we
can begin to trust in our police again.
Noah Weinrich is a freshman studying
politics and English.
A5 16 April 2015
Warren for Democratic nominee

Joshua Paladino
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MAKE SOCCER VARSITY

Nathanael Meadowcroft
Assistant Editor
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Joshua Paladino is a freshman studying politics and

journalism.
Dont focus on electability

Our presidential decisions need a better standard
Breana Noble
Collegian Reporter
Nathanael Meadowcroft is a sophomore

studying mathematics and journalism.
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Breana Noble is a freshman studying English and journalism.
What texting hath wrought

This abysmal state of language in email and texts isnt a moral oversight. Its a moral crisis.
Philip Wegmann
Philip Wegmann is a senior studying history and

politics.
CITY NEWS
A6 16 April 2015
County
will
borrow
$3 mil
for taxes
Ramona Tausz
Assistant Editor
Vice Chairman of the Hillsdale County Board of Commissioners Andy Welden proposed
a resolution to borrow $3 million in order to cover anticipated, unpaid 2014 taxes at the
county commissioner meeting
Tuesday. This yearly strategy
erating income, Welden said.
Since the county commonly
uses this plan to cover taxes, the
resolution passed unanimously.
Its for 2014 taxes that are
not paid, he said. We borrow
funds to make those payments
and as the delinquent taxes are
paid, we pay it back off.
The rate we pay is less than
the rate we charge, so its actually a plus for the county,
County Commissioner John
Burtka added.
County Commissioner Bruce
Caswell also announced that a
new, womens substance abuse
center opened on Beck Road
in Hillsdale Sunday. He said
the majority of women attending will be from the county, but
those outside of it will be welcome, too.
Executive Director and pastor at Hillsdales Life Challenge
rehabilitation facility Jack Mosley opened the center. According to Caswell, the center hopes
to receive a state grant in October to help with additional funding. Right now, church and private donations completely fund
the center.
Caswell also reported that
Hillsdale recently received its
annual FEMA grant. This year,
FEMA allocated $24,000 to the
city of Hillsdale for emergency
support services. It will be divided up so Domestic Harmony
receives $10,000, $8,000 goes
to the Community Action Agency, and $6,000 to the Hillsdale
food pantry. Domestic Harmony and the Community Action
Agency will use the money for
housing projects.
Nicholas Wheeler, Hillsdale
countys equalization director,
gave the 2015 Equalization Report assessing the countys assets. The report, which put the
total of all real and personal values at $1.7 billion, was accepted
and approved by the board. This
review of the countys property
value includes agricultural, industrial, commercial, residential, and developmental properties.
The next Hillsdale County
Commissioner meeting will be
sat
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Michigan schools will begin proctoring the SAT instead of the ACT to high school juniors next spring.
(Meg Prom/Collegian)
Hillsdale County Community Foundation

awards $9k in grants
Breana Noble
Collegian Reporter
The Hillsdale County Community Foundation awarded
$9,000 in grants to four projects
nities last Thursday, and a Hillsdale College GOAL program
We wanted to give people
a chance who maybe werent
normally eligible for our grants
to show how they love their
community or how they would
increase love for their community, HCCFs Communications
Director Amber Yoder said.
Community
grant
competi-
tion allowed organizations and

individuals to submit ideas for
projects to serve and celebrate
the small communities in the
county, HCCFs Executive Director Sharon Bisher said.
Grant winners included Hillsdale College Career Access
Planning, the Jonesville Rotary
Club, the Village of North Adams, and the Hillsdale County
Great Start Collaborative.
its College Experience initiative, which will bring freshmen
classes of all high schools in
the county to Hillsdale College
to learn why they should think
about college. According to the
projects description, only 20
percent of students in the coun-
ty go to college.
Unlike the regular college
visit, its geared toward going
to college in general, HCCAP
leader junior Alexis Allen said.
Were talking about 14-yearolds, so I recognize not all of
them will go home and start
looking at college, but Id love
it if itll be in their minds and
make the connection that you
have to work for your dreams
and goals. Our goal is, ultimately, that college acceptance rates
will increase.
Other colleges have similar
programs, Allen said, such as
Mount Vernon Nazarene University, which is a mentor for
HCCAPs initiative.
We know its an effective
the commissioners try a new

time to allow more community
members to attend. It will be
held at 7 p.m. on April 28.
HCCAP leader junior Alexis Allen holds the certificate for winning first place in the Hillsdale County
Community Foundations Love Your Community competition. (Breana Noble/Collegian)
program, Allen said. If it

keeps going, it has the potential to change this culture of not
thinking about college.
The grant will pay for busing
the students to campus, small
giveaways, and lunch in the cafeteria.
The Jonesville Rotary Clubs
Rail Trail, a new walking and
biking path that will be built
this summer and fall near the
railroad tracks, will receive
$2,500 for trail enhancements,
including a pavilion, picnic tables, benches, and receptacles.
Theres a lot of excitement
about the trail coming, so I
think this will provide another
opportunity for folks to enjoy
it, Rotary Club Secretary Jeff
Gray said.
The Village of North Adams
placed third with a proposal
to purchase four, six-foot tall
lighted Christmas candy canes
and bells to decorate street poles
on the four corners of North Adams square will receive $2,000.
Right now, we put up some
wreaths that are getting kind of
old and are worn pretty bad,
Village of North Adams Trustee
Allan Rounds said. Itll give
it more of a spirit at Christmas
time and brighten things up
make the community look a
little better.
Finally, Hillsdale County
Great Start won $1,500 for its
community baby shower on
April 25 at Bailey Elementary
School, which provides education on prenatal care for pregnant women and those with infants under one year.
The project came from the
data on Hillsdale County showing that 34.2 percent of moms
get less than adequate prenatal
health care, Great Start supervisor Ginelle Skinner said.
The baby shower is a free,
one-day event and will include
breakout sessions led by experts
on baby signs, infant massage,
and safe sleep. Hosted like a
baby shower, cupcakes and
other food will be served and
participants will play Bingo featuring the names of community
businesses. Participants will receive a package with diapers,

The grant will be used to
pay for the food and some of the
game activities and materials
for the event, Skinner said.
More information and registration is on the collaboratives
website: www.GreatStartHillsdale.com.
Before the four winners were
chosen Thursday, the Love
Your Community contest required project planners to submit their ideas with a breakdown of their project, a budget,
and a Facebook description. The
foundation posted the explanations on its Facebook page,
and the likes for the projects
counted toward two-thirds of
the decision.
We hadnt used Facebook
like this before, Yoder said.
We were trying to think of a
way to incorporate drawing
community support, but also
drawing people to the foundawe do things all year long.
The remaining third of the
decision came from the communitys board of trustees who
looked at feasibility, organization and planning, and budget,
Bisher said.
The foundation says it anticipates seeing the results and
impacts of these projects on the
community in hopes of holding
the competition again next year.
We want to see changes in
those small communities and
have communities come together and work together to
get something accomplished,
Bisher said. We hope that this
year, they will see the projects
and think of something great
they can do for their small community in the coming years.
Hillsdale health center scores top marks

Phil DeVoe
Collegian Reporter
U.S. News & World Report

and Medicare.gov both recently
honored the Hillsdale Community Health Centers McRitchie
Skilled Nursing Facility with a
ing Home. This was the third
year in a row the facility won
the award.
The health center, a multipurpose health care facility located on South Howell Street
in Hillsdale, Michigan, ranks
in the top 28 percent of nursing
homes on the U.S. News list,
according to an April 7 press
release. The list evaluates top
nursing homes in every state,
made the award an exciting
honor, HCHC CEO Duke Anderson said.
HCHC Nursing Assistant

Marisa Hamilton said she daily
notices the qualities that make
the nursing home deserve such
high distinctions.
The administration here
prove, and I think thats why
we keep winning the award
were always trying to be better, Hamilton said.
Hamilton said she loves
building relationships with
the patients whose stories and
smiles keep her passionate
about the job.
Elizabeth Wilds has been a
nursing assistant at the health
center for only two and a half
months, but she said she already notices the health centers high quality.
Everyone cares a lot for the
patients, and I can tell that this
is more than just a job. For me,
its a calling. Seeing a smile
and their appreciation is my

favorite part of the job every
day, Wilds said.
Both U.S. News and Medicare.gov have high standards
for giving full honors Medicare.gov considers four cat-
In the state of Michigan,

ciencies, which are homes
failure to meet health standards, is 7.9, while the Hillsdale Community Health
spections, and penalties, which

ernment over the past three
years that resulted from bad
care Hillsdales health center only had one.
Each nursing home is subject to heavy scrutiny while the
information is gathered by federal inspection teams, and as
seen from some of the one-star
nursing homes, small issues
can be detrimental to a homes
rating. The health centers ratings are four stars for health,
quality.
HCHC employees Marisa Hamilton, Angie Maps, and Marie Sorgenfrie pose in the hallway of the award-winning health center.
(Phil DeVoe/Collegian)
Tennis team shuts out Concordia

Hannah Leitner
Design Editor
In their last home match of
the spring season on Saturday,
the Hillsdale College womens
tennis team blanked Concordia
University 9-0. The win lifts the
Chargers to a spring season record of 2-1.
The girls have been working
against Concordia, coach Nikki
Walbright said. I think we were
overall more experienced and
were able to play well on every
court.
Between the three doubles
teams, the women only dropped
one game. The Delp sisters Morgan and Sydney were 8-0 winners, as were sophomore Jada
Bissett and junior Rachel Blaauw
at No. 3 doubles. Buck and junior
Lindsay Peirce took home an 8-1
win at No. 2 doubles.
Everyone was doing a great
job of focusing on their own
what theyve been working on
in practice and implementing
that into the match, sophomore
Dana Grace Buck said.
In singles, Peirce, Buck, and

Morgan Delp each won their
matches by scores of 6-0, 6-0.
Sydney Delp and Amberley
Bailey followed with a 6-0, 6-1
score, while Bissett won her two
sets by identical 6-1 scores.
Its hard to point out one
great performance, Buck said.
I think in the end its the whole
team. Everyone gave their best,
and everyone had great matches.
With the progression of the
spring season, Walbright said the
team has showed improvement
in endurance and footwork with
each match, but will continue
working to improve their singles play as well as their mental Junior Dana Grace Buck returns with a forehand in a
match against Concordia. (Photo Courtesy of Jenny Bals)
opponents.
but when the stakes are higher
Our team does a great job at
and youre put into a match situathings from our match last satur- tion, it forces you to be physical- think we love the competition
day and early practices this week ly and mentally tough as well.
and we do a great job of pushing
to really hone in on to the match
With their matches this week- ourselves and each other.
Saturday. Another thing weve end, Hillsdale looks forward to
The Chargers will take on a
been focussing on a lot more is wrapping up the spring season.
two-match weekend facing DavBuck said that long weekend enport University in Grand RapMorgan Delp said. I think its matches can be taxing both men- ids on Friday then playing against
going to help us a lot this upcom- tally and physically, especially Aquinas College at Spring Arbor
ing weekend because you can get with stiff competition, but be- on Saturday.
lax playing the same few team- lieves the team handles the presmates over and over in practice, sure well.
Saturday: Charger vs. Charger football

Nathanael Meadowcroft
Assistant Editor
After a disappointing injuryplagued 2014 campaign, the Hillsdale College football team has
worked this offseason to build
strength, gain experience, and
stay healthy.
Our guys have worked hard
all winter in the weight room
and have shown up with a get
after it attitude this spring, head
coach Keith Otterbein said. The
Chargers began spring practices
in March and have been practicing on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
To prepare his athletes for
the regular season, Otterbein has
been focusing on creating differ- The football team gathered midfield after a game against Saginaw Valley State University
ent game situations in practice, in the fall. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)
ranging from third-down plays to things came at me really fast in play their annual spring game at This year, the Chargers have
two-minute drills.
the fall, Rose said.
10 a.m. at the Frank Muddy picked up 29 recruits and are
Theres much more going on
Rose, like any other freshman, Waters Stadium. It is open to the likely to add two or three more
in practice to keep guys engaged is competing for playing time.
public.
according to Otterbein.
and locked in than just lining up
Spring practice is a good
Well show up two hours
Its a bigger recruiting class
and running plays, Otterbein chance for a lot of us freshmen early to the locker room, well than I had anticipated based on
said. As a football team its very and younger guys to get a chance wear our actual uniforms, well the amount of scholarship money
important for us to continue to to prove ourselves, Rose said. do our normal pre-game routine we had, Otterbein said. We feel
improve by taking these situa- In spring everybody gets a and treat it like we would on a really good about the quality acations and getting better at them so chance to practice and show what normal game day, Karmie said.
demically with this group and we
when it happens next fall were theyve got and the freshmen get
The Chargers will split up into think theyre some pretty good
ready to react at full speed.
a good chance to learn by doing a blue team and a white team. football players.
The Chargers featured a stuff instead of watching older
Some of the 29 recruits will
young squad last year and youth guys do it.
string offense and second-string not redshirt but play their true
combined with injuries resulted
While freshmen especially are defense, and the other will be freshman year according to Otin a 4-7 season.
competing for playing time, no the second-string offense and the terbein.
Were still pretty young but player is locked into his position
We dont like to do that but
were all more experienced this according to Otterbein.
It gets a little chippy out situations at certain positions may
year, junior offensive lineman
Nobody is going in the hall there, Karmie said. Theres a create that. Part of it is weve got
Justice Karmie said. Through- of fame here based on anything little bit of jawing back and forth to get everybody healthy, Otter- theyve done thus far in their ca- but because we do have a respect bein said. I would say theres a
nitely in spring ball theres been reers. They all have to maintain for the defensive guys and they couple defensive backs that are
an energy and a competitiveness and earn it, Otterbein said. All have a respect for us the competi- going to be right in the mix, and
that was lacking a little bit last the guys that have had stellar ca- tive level thats there has been re- maybe a defensive end or two
year.
reers have kept getting better not ally good.
might be in the mix. It just deFreshman linebacker Jay Rose because someone was pushing
The spring game will feature pends on how the rest of the guys
was originally going to be redno kickoffs and the coaching that may have missed some snaps
shirted last season, but injuries
here this spring come back.
our football team to be the best scenarios throughout the mornThe Chargers spring game
Im still getting used to game it could be and that meant indi- ing, but otherwise they will treat on Saturday concludes spring
speed but the spring has really vidually being the best that they it like a normal football game.
helped me get a better under- could be.
Several recruits generally at- resume on August 12.
standing of everything because
On Saturday, the Chargers will tend the spring game as well.
Shotgun considering move to Division II

Phil DeVoe
Collegian Reporter
After winning its third Division III national championship
last month, the Hillsdale College
shotgun team is considering a
move up to Division II from its
Texas A&M and University of

Missouri. Although the schools
are larger in student population,
division consideration for shotgun has little to do with school
size. Texas A&M could shoot
in D-I, but they drop to D-II in
order to win, which is something
else Carl and the team must con-
sider, given their success in DIII.

It really only has to do with
the number of shooters. If a large
school like Texas A&M only had
nine shooters, they would probably shoot right alongside of us
in D-III, even though theyre
bigger as a school.
While no decision has been

reached yet, Carl said they will
decide by next year. He wants
to keep winning championships, but he also wants to make
sure the team keeps challenging
themselves, and competing in
Division II would make that possible.
The move would be in expectation of an increase in team

members and a continuing drive
to compete against higher levels
of competition. The current number of members is nine, but head
coach Michael Carls scouting
could result in more than 15 for
next season.
The issue with the move is
that the team may not be as successful against larger teams.
best shooters scores, and since
typical Division II teams have at
least 20 shooters, there is a larger
will shoot well.
There are good and bad reasons for the move, Carl said.
The team seems divided on
what to do right now, and were
not sure what will happen.
Carl explained that the teams
in D-II meets are schools like
SPORTS
A7 16 April 2015
The shotgun team won the Division III national championship last month.
tesy of Joe Kain)
(Photo Cour-
BOX SCORES
Baseball
Hillsdale vs. Ohio Dominican
W, 6-5
L, 7-3
L, 9-5
W, 12-8
Hillsdale at Findlay
W, 4-0
W, 4-2
Season Leaders
Batting Average
Vinny Delicata (.340)
Runs Batted In
Chris McDonald (27)
Earned Run Average
Shane Armstrong (3.15)
Softball
Hillsdale vs. Lake Superior St.
W, 10-3
W, 5-4
Hillsdale at Northwood
L, 5-4
L, 8-3
Hillsdale vs. Findlay
W, 4-1
W, 5-0
Hillsdale vs. Ohio Dominican
W, 7-2
W, 9-5
Hannah Leitner:
Swim and Dive

dont belong
together
Swimming and diving are
like awkward cousins at a family reunion. You may both share
a grandmother, but outside of
that you cant hold a conversation longer than 30 seconds before running out of things to say.
Swimming and divings common ancestry can be traced back
to the pool they practice and
compete in, but that is where
their family resemblance ends.
With the recent ending of
the 2015 swim season, it is now
time that swimming and diving
part ways as unlikely friends and
begin being treated as individual
sports.
While both sports require
tremendous amounts of athleticism, the type of athleticism differs. Swimming is a speed sport
more similar to track and diving
is a more akin to gymnastics.
Swimmers tend to have longer,
looser, and more endurance-oriented muscles, divers then tend
to have tighter, more compact,
aerobatic muscles.
Yet NCAA insists on cramming swimming and diving into
the same meets.
Have you ever been in the
middle of a hockey game and
seen the rink cleared for a round
seen a wrestler have to clear the
mat during a match for a rhythsound absurd. Despite sharing
the same rink or gym the listed
sports have nothing in common.
Yet swimming and diving are
forced to compete together because we share a pool.
There is one sport besides
swimming and diving that combines different events, and thats
Like swimmers and divers,
fundamentally different from
one another. No one would mistake a champion thrower for a
champion long distance runner.
Unlike swimming and diving, however, sprinters and polevaulters can compete at the same
time.
As a collegiate swimmer, I
deck, silently for two 40-minute
sessions of diving, only to warm
up all over again for my upcoming races. Similarly, I can imagine that no divers enjoy sitting
watching swimmers splash between two walls for hours, while

they twiddle their thumbs.
The same logic should follow for swimming and diving as
it does other sports. The sports
should either be completely
separate events, or conducted
so that they dont impede with
one another. They are different
sports, and should be treated as
any other athletic event as the
main event of the competition.
Swimmers already compete
with the other swim teams, why
force them to compete with the
than the disruption of the meet
in the swimming and diving is
the combination of scores.
Until championship meets at
the end of the season, swimming
and diving are scored together.
This makes about as much sense
as determining a tie in a hockey
game, not by a shootout, but by
routine.
Diving is treated just like
another event at a swim meet.
When the opposing team had 3
divers, they are automatically
place, four points for second
place, and three points for third
place in both the one-meter and
the three-meter boards, leaving
us 32 points behind from the
start. We were being punished
for something we have no control over, constantly trying to
play catch up. It got to be so
frustrating, girls on the team
were asking the coach if they
could cannonball off the threemeter in order to pick up the
No harm would come by
separating the scores of the two
teams. By allowing one swim
team to win, but the opposing
diving team to win prevents
teams from being penalized for
uncontrollable factors. Additionally it allows teams to evaluate themselves solely on their
own merits, creating an accurate
evaluation of where the team
stands within the season.
Swimming and diving should
become independent and separate sports before I am compelled to cannonball off the
three-meter.
Track
From A8
the 5K in 17:28, with teammate

senior Chelsea Kilgore coming
in third in 17:50.
We got out of it what we
wanted, so I was happy with
it, said assistant track coach
Joe Lynn.
Saturdays meet was the
weeks. Home meets are important for the track team because all eligible athletes get to
compete, when only the teams
travel squad would compete
otherwise. Head track coach
Andrew Towne called the development of non-traveling
athletes a necessary part of
the track program.
At this point in the year
you have to begin to take steps
forward were essentially
in championship season now,
Towne said. And we got some
kids that dont get a chance to
compete as often, get a chance
to compete and I thought they
did well taking advantage of
that opportunity.
Not all of the distance and
middle distance runners competed in Saturdays meet. Many
of these top athletes rested before travelling to the Mount
Sac Invitational in California
next weekend.
Many of the top sprinters
will be going to the Louisiana
State University Alumni Gold
meet in Baton Rouge next
weekend. Those remaining on
the travel squad not going to
either Mt. Sac or LSU will go
to the Al Owens Invite at Grand
Valley State University.
Im happy with how were
doing right now, and it should
be a good next three weeks,
Towne said.
Anders Kiledal/Collegian
16 April 2015
Charger Sports
Chargers strong at
Hillsdale Invite
Evan Carter
Web Editor
Baseball riding 3-game winning streak

Stevan Bennett
four runs and striking out six.

Obviously it feels good to
be rewarded for hard work and
The Hillsdale College baseball team swept a two-game set

against the Findlay Oilers last
night after taking two of four
from the Ohio Dominican Panthers over the weekend. The
Chargers are now 13-23 overall
and 8-12 in the GLIAC.
Senior Shane Armstrong was
nearly unhittable Wednesday
night, throwing a complete game
shutout and allowing just four
half of the doubleheader 4-0.
All four of Hillsdales runs
ning, thanks to a walk by junior
Michael OSullivan and three
consecutive hits from juniors
Connor Bartlett, Chris McDonald, and Tad Sobieszczanski.
Hillsdale fell behind early in
the second game after giving up
two runs in the fourth, but the
Chargers fought back to win the
but there is just so much more

to this award than what I did
individually, McDonald said.
My teammates were able to
get on base in front of me so I
could have all the opportunities
I had this week, The coaches
have been great in pushing me
to change my approach at the
plate.
dale baseball player to win the
award since Scott Monterastelli
won it in 2009.
Over the weekend the Chargers took on the Ohio Dominican Panthers in a four-game
home series, winning the bookend games but dropping the
middle two.
After the Panthers scored two

of the series opener, the Chargers
loaded the bases for McDonald,
who laced a ball into left-center
The teams then matched each
other, run for run, in the 6-5 Hillsdale victory.
The offensive effort was led
by junior Luke Ortell who went
4-for-4 with two doubles and a
triple.
I was just seeing the ball
well this weekend, Ortell said.
I felt like I had a good mental
helped me succeed at the plate
this weekend,
The Charger offense failed
to get hits at critical moments in
Saturdays second game, leaving
13 men on base in a 7-3 loss.
Hillsdale took the lead in the

Senior Rachel Warner running the 5K at the Hillsdale
Invite meet on Saturday. (Anders Kiledal/Collegian)
from OSullivan and Sobieszczanski and a wild pitch which
The Chargers took advantage

of sunny spring weather and
their home turf at last Saturdays
Hillsdale Invitational, in what
Junior Jacob Gardner pitched

brilliantly in the win, throwing 7
2-3 innings, allowing three runs,
one earned, on only three hits.
Junior Mitchell Gatt and senior Dan Pochmara pitched the
lowing a hit.
Every single pitcher was
outstanding today, and that was
the key to a great day, Theisen
said.
On Monday afternoon junior
Chris McDonald was named the
GLIAC North Division Player of
the Week.
McDonald hit .500 (11-for22) over the week with two home
season for many of the athletes.

The meet was successful for the
Chargers, with a number of athletes achieving personal bests
and provisional marks, qualifying them for the national meet in
May.
Junior Corinne Zehner had
a full day winning the 100 hurdles, the 400 hurdles, and participating in the 4x400 meter relay.
Her blistering 14.02 second 100
hurdle time was a personal best
and national qualifying time,
while her 400 hurdle time was
her second best time ever, also
a national qualifying time. After the meet Zehner was named
GLIAC Womens Track Athlete
of the Week for the third time
this year.
On the mens side, senior
Maurice Jones ran an electric
53.33 second 400 hurdle time,
just edging out second place by
.01 seconds. Senior Alex Mexicotte won the 200 meter dash in
for the national meet.
The Chargers also had a good
day in the 400 meter dash. On
the womens side, sophomore
Allison Duber won with a time
of 56.77 seconds, with Jessica Hurley and Emily Guy also
breaking the one minute mark.
It was a little tough because
ters, the wind was strong and I
didnt feel that great, but I took
off the last 200, Duber said.
Freshman Lane White also

won the 400 meter dash in a
speedy 47.63 seconds and freshond place.
Freshman David Chase won
the high jump with a height of
2.01 meters.
Sophomore Alex Whitford
tied for second in the pole vault
with a jump of 3.46 meters.
Freshman Jared Schipper won
the pole vault for the Charger
men, jumping a height of 5.05
meters and breaking his own
school record. Teammate junior
Matt Harris, tied for second.
It was awesome, I love doing it, Schipper said.
Senior Heather Lantis threw
a personal best in the javelin
by over six meters, with her
best throw going 33.41 meters.
Sophomore Dana Newell threw
personal best distances in both
the shot put and hammer throw.
Her distance of 50.11 meters in
the hammer throw is close to the
provisional qualifying mark.
won the steeplechase with a personal best time of 11:29.
Freshmen Sam Phillips and
Tony Wondaal placed second
and third in the steeplechase
respectively, coming in at 9:46
and 9:51. Senior Kevin Frost
Provo is 9:22, school record is 9:00, and auto is 8:52, so
while this was a good race, those
are my goals, Phillips said.
Sophomore Molly Oren won
See TRACK, A7
with two good outings on the

mound, in which he pitched 10
combined innings, allowing only
Colegate was effective on the

mound when it mattered, giving
up three runs, only one earned,
in 7 2-3 innings, despite allowing eight Hillsdale hits.
Due to injuries, freshman
Alex Walts was forced to make
on Sunday.
We got him some work behind the plate in the winter, just
in case of emergency, Theisen
said. He stepped up in a big spot
when we really needed him.
A late Chargers comeback effort fell short in Sundays opener, as they dropped the game 9-5.
strides toward his Player of the
Week honors in the contest, going 3-for-4 with a home run and
Although Charger pitchers were roughed up, Theisen
looked at the positives.
We had guys keep battling
after they gave up runs. They
kept ODU where they were, and
gave us a chance to comeback,
he said.
Theisen did not have to search
for the positives in Sundays second game, as the Chargers took
As seemed par for the weekend, McDonald set the tone for
the offense, going 4-for-5 with
his second home run on the day
Ortell, not to be outdone, hit a
home run of his own in a 3-for-4
performance.
The rest of Hillsdales offense
managed to keep pace, with nine
different Chargers recording at
least one hit and seven Chargers
knocking in at least one run.
Senior Dan Pochmara came
Senior Mitchell Gatt pitches in a game against Wayne

State University. (Photo Courtesy of Jenny Bals)
game, striking out two to seal the

win.
The Chargers will travel to Saginaw Valley State
this weekend to play four
games against the Cardinals.
SOFTBALL SWEEPS FINDLAY, OHIO DOMINICAN

Morgan Delp
Editor-in-Chief
The Hillsdale College softball team swept Findlay Tuesday
night at Johnny Williams Field in
a crucial GLIAC doubleheader
that bumped Hillsdale up into the
top eight of the conference and
in the running for a tournament
berth. The Chargers topped the
Oilers 4-1 and then 5-0.
We had great pitching, great
defense, and timely hitting,
head coach Joe Abraham said.
The Findlay coach said after the
two games, Your team did pretty
much everything right today,
which we had.
Last night, the Chargers continued excellent play in their
wins against Ohio Dominican
University, also at home, with
scores of 7-2 and 9-5, putting
them at 6-2 for the week.
We needed those wins
against Findlay and even Ohio
Dominican. We clutched up and
got those four wins, Abraham
said.
Sophomore Bekah Kastning
hit a three-run double with two
outs in the second game against
the ODU Panthers.
We scored seven of our nine
runs in the second game with
two outs, and thats what weve
been struggling with all year, and

we got it done today, which was
nice, Abraham said.
Freshman Danielle Stiene
provided strong pitching for Hillsdale both Tuesday and Wednesday.
She shut out Findlay. It was
a no-hitter going into the last
inning. She was really strong
against them. She pitched a twohitter with 13 Ks against Findlay, Abraham said. Today she
the full game, then we brought

second game.
Over the weekend, the Chargers lost tough games against
Northwood on Sunday 5-4 and

8-3, after sweeping Lake Superior State on Saturday 10-3 and
5-4. Kastning went 3-for-4 in
both games against Lake Superior State.
I was just seeing the ball really well, and I had a good warm
up, which puts me in a great
mindset for the game. I was really focused, relaxed, and happy
that we had great weather and
it was fun to have a crowd. Everything felt perfect that day,
and when I feel good I hit well,
Kastning said.
Charger Chatter: Nathaniel Nobbs

been a family sport since my
older sister began high school,
and I just followed right in her
steps. I actually wasnt planning
lege, but I picked up javelin my
senior year of high school and
ended up doing pretty well in
it and got fourth at states. I decided Id try to keep it going in
college.
How is the new throws coach
Janine Kuestner working with
Nathaniel Nobbs is a junior

studying marketing managehe enjoys being outdoors.
How did you discover track
Track and Field has basically
Shes awesome. She keeps a

really fun atmosphere in practice, but she also keeps it really serious and is able to really get down to the bottom
of what needs to be done with
technique. She also makes our
not doing the same thing other
throwers in other events are do-
ing. She tries to cater it to each

of our needs and each of our
abilities and what we think will
Yes there actually was. When

Coach Ferino left, he wasnt
nearly as involved as Coach
Kuestner is with us now. When
were throwing shes there
watching us throw, when were
lifting, most of the time shes
there watching us lift. Shes involved in every step of the practice and training process, and
thats been a huge help.
Im excited for it. I put in more
work this past fall than I have
my freshman and sophomore
year, and Ive been able to come

a long way on working on technique and hopefully getting to
where Im throwing correctly,
which will hopefully translate
to some good distances. Im always a little bit nervous before
each competition, but after I
cally I settle down and get into
the groove. Im just excited to
my event only happens for four
weeks out of the year, but Im
training from the end of August
until now.
meet and win. The competition

wasnt too strong there and Id
like to have thrown farther than
I did, but it felt nice to come out
and win and do at least that well
right off the bat.
prepared myself as best as I can.
Before you and the team go to

Not really, I just try to make
sure my bag is packed and I
have every single thing I need
and Im prepared for every kind
of weather. Ill typically try to
visualize my throws and what
I need to do in competition to
I really like longboarding and

boating as well as hiking and
shooting, with a little bit of video games mixed in there.
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Tower Players put on Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike in Quilhot Black Box
Natalie DeMacedo
News Editor
On a small set in the Quilhot Black Box, with audience
members seated in the round,
the Tower Players bring Vanya
and Sonia and Masha and Spike
to life Thursday and Friday at 7
p.m. and Saturday at 2 p.m. and
7 p.m.
The play begins with a greyhaired couple just out of bed
pajamas and Sonia wrapped in a
plush bathrobe.
Director George Angell said
they chose the black box because
of the edgier moments, but described the humor of the play as
delicious.
Sonia deals with depression.
Some people move on and get

help, but she really uses it as a
way to get attention, said sophomore Anastasia Dennehy, who
plays Sonia. Shes also so awkward. Shes a high schooler stuck
in a 52-year-olds body.
She added that although Vanya, Sonia, and Masha three
siblings in their 50s have lived
good lives, none of them really
did what they wanted to do.
Oldest sibling Vanya, played
by senior Aaron Pomerantz, simply wants everyone to get along
elderly parents who have passed

away by the time the play begins,
they never did anything with
their lives after the loss. They
spend most days in their pajamas, sitting in front of their picture window waiting for a blue
wild turkeys.
Their youngest sister Masha,
on the other hand, went on to become a B-rate actress in order to
pay for the family bills.
Junior Nick Gibbs plays Spike, and puts on a show.

(Photo courtesy of Caroline Green)
Alpha Psi Omega stages reading of The Stage-Struck Yankee
last semester, with various members reading through the script of

Heartbreak House by George
Bernard Shaw. This semester,
the group read Oliver Everett
Durivages comedy The StageStruck Yankee.
The way it happened last semester was that Aaron [Pomerantz] and Jenn [Shadle] read [the
play] for class, junior Megan
Scott, the current secretary, said.
They sent the script out and
asked if anyone would be interested in doing it. Everybody read
through the script and said that
yeah, it sounded bizarrebut it
sounded fun.
The staged readingswhere
each actor is assigned a character
and reads aloud, together, from
the scriptoffer APO members
and theatre enthusiasts alike a
chance to explore new plays, new
methods, to branch out from the
and over the top, on the other end

he likes to wade in the pond and
play with frogs.
Gibbs added that being in
your underwear in front of an
audience is like your nightmares
coming true.
Ive come a long way,
to Hillsdale they had to show me
how to hug a girl, and now Im
in my underwear kissing another
girl.
All the kisses are real,
Hodge added, explaining that the
intimate black-box setting makes
a fake kiss impossible.
Helping these three siblings
Small stage, big experience
Ask a Hillsdale College theatre major to do something

strange and the odds are good
theyll say yes.
Theatre Honorary Alpha Psi
Omega recently held its second
staged reading of a play script
this year. It has previously held
APOcalypse, a series of skits
and improvised scenes. But this
is a new project, less formal than
a stage production and more
structured than APOcalypse.
at all, Gibbs said about his character, who appears twice in boxer
briefs despite Mashas wishes.
Hes at various ends of the spec-
He wants to keep the peace, but

ends up snapping and ranting for
a good 10 minutes, saying all the
things hes been keeping inside
for the past 15 years.
Although Vanya and Sonia
stayed home to take care of their
Junior Faith Liu as Cassandra in Vanya and Sonia and

Masha and Spike. (Photo courtesy of Caroline Green)
Sarah Albers
Assistant Editor
Shes very much the center

of attention and a drama queen,
sophomore Gwendolyn Hodge
said. But shes not happy with
her career and is having some regrets when she goes home.
She comes home one weekend to tell her older siblings she
plans to sell the house shes been
paying for, dragging along her
muscle-bound boy toy Spike,
played by junior Nick Gibbs.
He doesnt catch social cues
standard fare of the production

season.
Its not theatre, senior Aaron
Pomerantz, APO president, said.
Its more like a radio drama in
a lot of ways. Its a lot of fun. Its
a chance to see things done that
you wouldnt otherwise.
Because a staged reading
eliminates the costumes, props,
and myriad paraphernalia of a
standard production, it gives
more freedom to both the actors
and the audience. Voice, facial
expression, and emotional inference are critical.
In some ways, theres less
room for improvisation, Scott
said. Theres no set, no costumes, no motions. But you have
the script in front of you, which
gives you a lot of room to play
around with feelings and vocal
expression without necessarily
having the script memorized.
But this sense of dynamism
isnt limited to the actors. The
audience is involved in the play
much more directly and intimately than in most stage productions.
You just need a place to sit
and people to watch you, senior Connor Gleason explained.
Some people call it found space
theatre. And dimensionally, its
different. One reason that a person goes to a play, as opposed to
seeing a movie, is because theres
supposedly audience interaction.
Its sometimes very subtle, but in
a staged reading, all that subtlety
is thrown out the door. Theyre
having fun. Were having fun.
This means, though, that some
playsparticularly those heavily dependent on physicality or

prop-rich environmentsare out
of consideration.
Some of the plays that I hope
theyll eventually do are just not
practical to do on the stage,
Pomerantz said, or at least not
at a college. But they would be
great to do as a reading.
According to Gleason, the best
plays for a reading are simple,
short, and exciting. And, with a
shorter-length play, people who
are normally behind the scenes
get their hour to strut and fret
upon the stage.
It gives us an opportunity to
work on things that we wouldnt
be able to otherwise, said senior Jenn Shadle, vice president
of APO. It gives members of
our honorary a chance to do new
things. A lot of [crew members]
dont have the opportunity to act
and this lets them try it out without investing too much time.
In the end, each staged reading is a microcosm of personality, culture, and literature. When
asked what exhortation he might
have for those unsure of attending a reading, he said: go.
Its a simple way to get cultured, Gleason said. And its
really fun. Bring friends because
youll have a lot of great inside
jokes and a lot of great outside
jokes. Go for the moments and
go for your friends and go for the
laughs.
trying to sort out their future and

differences are cleaning lady
Cassandra, played by Faith Liu,
and a young aspiring actress,
Nina.
Shes an odd duck. Shes an
immigrant who has these prophesy moments like her namesake,
Liu said.
Cassandra often bursts out
with warnings that dont even
make sense to her, but eventually
prove strangely clairvoyant.
Elyse Hutcheson plays Nina,
who has been dying to meet the
famous Masha and knows far
more about theatre than most of
the other characters.
Shes very optimistic and
always looking for the brighter
See Tower Players B2
Senior Aaron Pomerantz plays Vanya in the Chekov inspired play. (Photo courtesy of Caroline Green)
Things
To do and see This

week
April 13-17
Senior Art Exhibit #3:
Hannah Ahern, Valerie Copan, and
Kaitlin McNiel will present their exhibit
of paintings, drawings, sculptures,
photography and graphic design work
done at Hillsdale College and elsewhere.
Their subject matter spans from the
religious to the mundane. It is
their eclectic mix of styles and
mediums, which distinguish each artist.
Valerie specializes in photography,
drawing, and pen and ink. Katies
work includes photography, metal
work, watercolor, and cosmetology.
Hannah enjoys a range of mediums
including oils, sculpture, watercolor,
and graphic design.
April 15-18
8 p.m.
(with 2 p.m. performance on April 18)
Winner of the 2013 Tony Award,
Outer Circle Critics Award,
Drama League Award, Drama
Desk Award, and Off-Broadway
Alliance Award for Best Play. This
is the most lauded and beloved new
American play in many years. A
hilarious and touching mash-up of

Anton Chekhovs four major plays,
as set in contemporary Connecticut.
The Tower Players will produce this gem
as an intimate, fully mounted, black box
production.
April 16
7 p.m.
Lane 125
Drs. Bushey, Whalen, and Murphy will
hold a public roundtable discussion
about the nature and purpose of art.
April 20-24
Seniors Erin Dellinger, Kinsey
Devenport, Olivia McAlexander, and
Michelle McAvoy will present a
senior exhibit of their best work
from their time at Hillsdale College.
Erin Dellingers work will range from
pen, ink, and watercolor illustrations
to sculpture and charcoal drawings of
pieces will focus mainly on photography
and will highlight a few of her
watercolor and oil paintings. Similarly,
Olivia McAlexander will display
photography and illustration style
pieces. Michelle McAvoy will feature
graphic design work ranging from
posters to branding projects, and she
will display a collection of photography.
(Compiled by Andrew Egger)
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16 April 2015 B2
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Hillsdale Camerata performs this weekend

(Morgan Delp/Collegian)
Emma
Vinton
After icons:
Jesus in
Sarah Albers
Assistant Editor
television and the movies.
Art for breakfast: Senior exhibit from the Waffle House

Evan Carter
Web Editor
Twelfth Night casting major roles a semester early

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Jordan Finney
Collegian Reporter
Emma Vinton is a junior from
Brighton, Michigan, majoring in
English and minoring in journalism through the Dow Journalism
Program. She serves as the assistant editor for the Collegians
Spotlight page.
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Books for your consideration

Now that assigned reading is drawing to an end for the summer, its time to pick up your own favorites.
If youre at a loss for good reads, some of Hillsdales best professors offer recommendations:
Matthew Young
Associate Professor
of Chemistry
Matthew Gaetano
Assistant Professor
of History
Peter Blum
Professor of
Sociology
Patricia Bart
Associate Professor
of English
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(Interviews compiled by Morgan Delp)
Andrew Egger
Assistant Editor
Your phone beeps, and you
pull up short to survey your surroundings. To the untrained eye,
theres nothing extraordinary
about the alley youre in, unassumingly located behind a small
ice cream shop. You know better:
youve followed the trail, and the
object youre seeking is close.
After a few minutes of searching, you grin as you suddenly spy
a small grey box magnetically
attached to the underside of a
guardrail. Jackpot.
Welcome to geocaching.
Straddling the line between
nature walk and treasure hunt,
between group subculture and
solitary pastime, geocaching
is an outdoor hobby in which
participants use GPS-enabled
devices to locate caches placed
inconspicuously by other players all over the world. With more
than 2.5 million caches scattered
S
potlight
Cachers keepers, losers weepers
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worldwide and more than 6 million active members, the activity has quickly gained popularity
since its inception near Portland,
Oregon, in May 2000.
itself, which can range from tiny
geocaching has taken off in

Hillsdale County, with over 750
caches within 25 miles of the
as assorted objects which others

have left behind.
The rule is that if you take
anything out of the cache, youve
got to replace it with something
of equal or greater value, Prom
said. In that way you connect
with people and their stories; it
really connects you to the history
of that particular spot.
As subcultures go, geocaching is unusually pervasive. Many
caches are squirreled away in
sparsely trodden areas like parks
and forests, but many more
lurk unobtrusively in the spaces
where we live out our everyday
lives. According to Geocaching.
com, there are 20 caches hidden
less than a mile from Central
Hall: in the Oak Grove Cemetery,
on Baw Beese Trail, in Slayton
Arboretum, and even in down-
Geocaching.com. Recently, Hillsdale College students are starting to join in too.

Its like a social treasure
hunt, junior Meg Prom said. If
Facebook and pirates were combined, youd have geocaching.
Freshman Randi Block was
more succinct: Its just hiking
with prizes.
The rules of the hunt are simple. After deciding online which
cache to pursue, the geocacher
enters its coordinates into a GPS
or smartphone, which allows him
to pinpoint its location within an
area of about thirty feet. Once
there, he must rely on verbal or
visual clues to locate the cache
The contents vary from cache

to cache, but most contain a log
town Hillsdale.
There are more in the county
than one might suspect, said local resident and longtime cacher
Trinity Bird. Theres a really
challenging one by the courthouse with a code you have to
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len resident and serious cacher

who volunteers for Geocaching.
com. We get together for a meal,
go out for a kayak ride, work on
a park clean-up, or spend a day
running around the trails, whether by hiking, driving, or offroading.
Nor is the fellowship limited
challenge of opening it without

passersby noticing. The community calls these unaware bystanders muggles, an affectionate
term that speaks to the hobbys
burgeoning popularity alongside
Harry Potter in the early 2000s.
Despite the inherently secretive and technological nature of
the pastime, cachers still share
the unique bond common to less
virtual communities. To facilitate these ties, Geocaching.com
sponsors regular meetups and extracurricular events.
On average, we host around
40-50 events a month around the
state, said Kenneth Todd, an Al-
Almost every single time

we go we run into someone else
also looking for the cache, Prom
said. It encourages face-to-face
meetings, because youre actively going and doing stuff and
giving each other advice. Youre
going in search of something
you become a team.
Of course, a niche like geocaching isnt for everyone.
I think its kind of one of
those things you either love or
you hate, Prom said. A lot of
people kind of look at you as a
little weird for doing it, because
youre walking out in the middle
of a park for hours looking for
this thing with your phone out.
Its kind of like the guy with

the metal detector at the beach;
no one talks to that guy, unless
youre a collector too and youve
found your little niche.
But, for many, the sense of
belonging to a community united
by an offbeat passion is part of
the joy.
The community for me sets
us apart from other activities,
Todd said. Most of us knew
ago, but we consider each other
great friends now. Anywhere we
travel, we can hook up with other
cachers, ask for advice.
For their part, Hillsdales student geocachers are just getting
started.
If you were ever that kid who
loved searching for clues or exforgotten tales, then its worth it
at the end, Prom said. Theres
a sense of accomplishment in
it, in following coordinates and
treasures.
Space on Smiths mind

Evan Brune
Senior Reporter
In the evening hours of the
1920s, at a small house on Griswold Street, one man was changing the world.
When Edward Doc Smith
came to Hillsdale, Michigan in
1920, space was on his mind.
Smith arrived in Hillsdale
in the spring of that year, after
earning two degrees from the
University of Idaho. He spent
nearly two decades working for
F.W.Stock and Sons, formulating
doughnut mixes for the company.
But he would be remembered not
as a cereal chemist, but as one of
century.
At a mens smoking club in
1915, Smith was having a discussion with a former classmate,
Carl Garby. It was especially hot
and humid, and the conversation
eventually turned from terrestrial
temperatures to speculation on
what the temperature was in the
vacuum of space. Garby told his
wife, Lee, about the conversation
later, and Lee pushed Smith to
write a story about it. The idea
lark of Space, was born.
The titular Skylark is a ship
built by Dick Seaton, the storys
protagonist. Seaton discovers
that space travel is possible by
combining copper with another
Students and faculty gather by the Abraham Lincoln statue yesterday to commemorate
the 150th anniversary of Lincolns death. (Hailey Morgan/Collegian)
Lighthouse heals
Morgan Sweeney
Senior Reporter
Nearly 50 people gathered on
April 7 for the Lighthouse clubs
Behind the Stigma: Substance
Abuse and Addiction event.
Three students told their stories of dealing with addiction,
and Director of Health Services
Brock Lutz gave the closing talk.
Junior Ryan Potrykus shared
about how, when he was younger, his mother was addicted to
opiates, drugs that commonly
come in the form of painkillers.
Potrykus coasted through much
of his childhood unaware of his
moms battle with drugs. He witnessed tension between his parents and remembers his dad as
angry and frustrated during those
years.
When he was 11, his mom
went to rehab.
I didnt talk to my mom for
two years, Potrykus said. I felt
extremely lost during that time.
In high school, I started getting
into drugs.
It wasnt until his mom came
home that Potrykus started thinking seriously about quitting his
addiction.
My
mom
completely
changed when she came back.
I saw that drugs dont have to
overpower you for the rest of
your life, Potrykus said.
Sophomore Cecily Parells
story was one of familial addiction. Though she herself never
struggled with substance abuse,
alcoholism runs in her family.
Parells uncle was the catalyst
for her familys discovery of the

disease. He was in rehab when
Parells father went to visit him.
He sat in on an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and realized that
Drugs dont have to

overpower you for
the rest of your life.
his brother wasnt the only one
with an addiction.
It wasnt much later that
Parells father gave up alcohol
for good. She was 7 years old.
She never considered his addiction much of a part of her life,
until she got older and saw how
it had affected her. Parell began
to notice that she picked up broken people wherever she went,
something children and family
members of alcoholics often do.
said. We feel as though we
have some responsibility to correct that brokenness because we
werent able to before.
Sophomore Keyona Shabazz
spoke about a personal struggle
with addiction. Shabazz grew up
in an urban, drug-ridden part of
Fort Worth, Texas. They even inThe functioning members of
my family have done marijuana.
Some of them even got into crack
cocaine, Shabazz said.
In eighth grade, she made up
her mind to try marijuana. During her high school years, her
use of the drug remained some-
what sporadic until she was a

senior. Even then, however, she
told herself that her using wasnt
in school, she had gotten accepted to Hillsdale, she had good
friends.
This year, she began drinking, too. Her addiction reached
a low point during winter break.
It was then that her mother found
out about her use of marijuana,
and Shabazz realized her dethemselves having to justify their
use of alcohol or drugs, Shabazz
warns: Theres going to come a
day when its stronger than you.
Lutz closed the event by talking about his experience with
substance abuse. His father died
from alcoholism when Lutz was
13 years old. Lutz, too, developed a problem with alcohol.
Sober for six years, he still
speaks about the reach of alcoholism in families and in ones
own life.
We so often want to hide
from those things that actually
spur growth in our lives, Lutz
said. Recovery happens when
we deal with them, and that takes
brutal honesty. It takes a commitment to learning how to handle
Senior Katy Norton, president
of Lighthouse, the campus club
for mental health awareness and
the host of the event, said that denial is one of the biggest issues
with addiction.
Lighthouse will be hosting
their fourth Stigma event on eating disorders soon.
accelerator, allowing the ship to

reach speeds faster than light.
The
antagonist,
Marc
DuQuesne, discovers Seatons
plans and builds his own ship,
Dorothy Vaneman, to exchange
and Crane, his partner, follow
DuQuesne in an attempt to rescue Dorothy. The chase takes
them far from the Earth, where
they encounter a disembodied
intelligence, dead stars, and civilizations on the planet Osnome.
Eventually, there is a climactic battle in which the crew
of Skylark battles the armies of
the rulers of Mardonale with the
assistance of Prince Dunark of

Kondal, which results in the destruction of Mardonale and the
Kondalian weapons. Seaton is
In the evening hours

of the 1920s, in a
small house on
Griswold Street, one
man was changing
the world.
named the overlord of Kondal,
and the team returns to Earth on
the reconstructed Skylark Two.
Now, Smith began sending it
to publishers.
Eight years went by before
anyone showed interest. In that
time, Smith only received one
letter that wasnt outright rejection. Bob Davis, editor of Arzine, said he loved the story, but
worried that it was too far out
for his readers.
Finally, in 1927, Amazing
Stories magazine accepted his
90,000 word novel. They offered
him $75 for the work, which was
less than what Smith had paid in
postage over eight years of submissions. But Smith accepted it.
The novel was a huge hit with
readers, and soon, Amazing Stories Editor Thomas Sloane wrote
Smith, asking for a sequel. Smith
started work on Skylark Three,
novel left off.
Skylark would have another
part in Skylark Valeron in
1933, which skyrocketed Smith
years, during which time Smith
moved from Hillsdale to Jackson, Michigan, he wrote his nextnovels: The Lensman Series.
In this new series, a group
called the Galactic Patrol combated the piracy that threatened
galactic civilizations. Many new
alien species interacted with
one another in this galaxy-wide
the forces of good, while the Eddorians, in their search for power,
represented evil.
Smith wrote for the rest of
vention in 1963, he was honored for his contributions to the
genre. His hands trembled, and
he was nearly blind. But when
asked what his next book would
be, Smith replied sharply, The
title of my next story is Skylark
DuQuesne!
Two weeks after Skylark
Duquesnes publication in 1965,
Doc Smith died of a heart attack.
But his contributions to the world
outlast his mortality.
In 1978, Verna Trestrail,
Smiths daughter, spoke to a
crowd about her fathers work.
A teacher once came up
to me and said, When I was
in school, a study hall teacher
caught me reading your fathers
book, The Skylark of Space,
and I had to spend three days
in detention. Now, Im teaching
it! Doc would have loved that,
Trestrail said.
And nothing less than the
United States Navy looked to
Smiths work for inspiration.
During World War II, Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz took inspiration from Smiths battleship
bridge designs in constructing
naval Combat Information Centers on ships bridges.
You proposed such an integrating technique and proved
how advantageous it could be.
You, sir, were 100 percent right.
As the Japanese Navynot the
learned at an appalling cost,
wrote John W. Campbell, who
edited Smiths Lensman series.
Robert Heinlein, one of the
ers of the latter half of the twentieth century, paid tribute to Smith
help and hospitality in a 1988
publication.
Both Doc and his beautiful
Jeannie were endlessly hospitable, he wrote. I stayed with
them once when they had nine
houseguests. They seemed to enjoy it. But, above all, Doc Smith
was a perfect, gallant knight. And
his stories.
Sonic interview
From B4
Q: How and when did your band become what it is today?
Chris Pandolfo: Sonic Schizophrenic is made up of members of Phi Mu Alpha
should call ourselves. At the last Battle of the Bands we were the Pink Jalapeno
Q: How would you describe your sound?

Q: What bands inspire you?
CP and MN: Frank Ocean.
Q: What should students be looking out for at CHP?

Q: Anything else?
B4 16 April 2015
Spotlight
Q&A
with CHP
opening
acts
Holy Moses
Holy Moses members (left to right) Aaron Andrews, Mike Ragan,

Ian Andrews, and Tim Allen will open for Chris Lane and
Natalie Stovall next weekend. (Elena Creed/Collegian)
Sonic Schizophrenia
Compiled by
Kelsey Drapkin
Q: How and when did your band become what it is today?

Tim Allen: It all started when Ian came up and complimented my guitar
showed up with the new shipment of freshmen last year and we let him in
Q: How would you describe your sound?
Sonic Schizophrenia members (left to right) Ian Fury, David Johnson, Chris Pandolfo,
Mark Naida, Joel Calvert, and Dean Sinclair will play before Holy Moses next weekend
for Centralhallapalooza. (Elena Creed/Collegian)
along, feel along with us.

Q: What bands inspire you?
Q: What should students be looking out for at CHP?
Q: Anything else?
See Sonic interview, B3
CAMPUSCHIC
LEAH BERNHARDSON, SENIOR
Describe your fashion sense.
Classic with a twist of fun colors.
What is your most embarrassing item of clothing?
Black sweatpants from Walmart that my friends made me buy.
What is your biggest fashion pet peeve?
Seasonally inappropriate clothing. Dont wear maxi skirts or mini
skirts in winter.
What is your favorite item of clothing?
Who inspires your wardrobe?

Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly.
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Michigans oldest college newspaper

Vol. 138 Issue 23 - 16 April 2015

SAB announces two Band Hero

All Undergraduate Students

Sorority Scholarship Cup

3.328 Pi Beta Phi

Fraternity Scholarship Cup

3.148 Alpha Tau Omega

Graduating top 10 (alphabetical)

we worked out was we contacted both bands and said if youre

Lead singer for Sonic Schizophrenic freshman Mark Naida

Michigan switches to SAT

Michigan high school juniors

ing to move to the SAT, said Bob

Behold a Kingdom: Cherish a Touch

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee

thorized Winston Churchill

SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS

See SAT infographic on A6

Baseball sweeps Findlay

Vanya and Sonia and Masha

Meet the Bands

Hillsdale Community Health

(Courtesy of Jenny Bals)

Equal Justice Under Law

Check out articles online at

Presidents Office commemorates

Students and faculty gathered around the Civil War

a public commemoration yesterday afternoon in honor of the

Hillsdales graduating class of

YAF members attend midwest conference

More than 200 students from

both educators and students.

conservatism that they can understand.

hurt. Because they dont, Gutfeld said in his speech, in which

In response, Michigan school

to approach the liberal left, and

16th president. Pestritto addressed the crowd, saying that

Student Fed helps

Student Federation approved

their new test scores.

Pestritto explained. Even

There was little debate about

the proposal and it passed

Former Mises student talks

mist was the opportunity to study

Former NFL player, now speaker,

Former professional football player C.L. Shepherd will

Bay Buccaneers. Shep eventually turned down a multimillion

Campus Health and Recreation, with marketing support

(C.L. Shepherd/Courtesy of Shepherd)

Coughlin said he believes

important in life than his job.

realized there is something more

a.m. Saturday at Hayden Park.

throughout the course, which

Patrick Deneen to speak on Leo Strauss and liberalism

was one of those students.

I think hes doing it seriously.

On Friday at 8 p.m., Hillsdale

Against Great Books, in First

Students study independently

nity, politics, and the relationship

Franklin said. And I think that